{"id":530,"date":"2006-04-01T18:07:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/more-geekiness-skip-it-if-youre-straight\/"},"modified":"2006-04-01T18:07:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T18:07:38","slug":"more-geekiness-skip-it-if-youre-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/more-geekiness-skip-it-if-youre-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"More geekiness &#8211; skip it if you&#8217;re straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.punkey.net\/\" target=\"_new\">Lee<\/a> is owed several pints for introducing me to <a href=\"http:\/\/monkey.org\/~marius\/pages\/?page=trickle\" target=\"_new\">trickle\/trickled<\/a>.  It lets you limit bandwidth <i>per process<\/i> in the most simple way imaginable! So I can still download the original TV series of Whoops Apocalypse and use the Internet at the same time! Joy!<\/p>\n<p>While trickled was throttling my bittorrents, I did some work on &#8220;the application&#8221;. To the observer, I have managed to make a small dialog-box appear when you click on a button. What the observer cannot observe is that <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The button is an image on an html page which is rendered in a browser object which, in turn, is embedded in a C application.<\/li>\n<li>The HTML page is sent to the browser by a nanoscopic HTTP server in the application that also contains a very basic in-page scripting engine.<\/li>\n<li>Clicking the button actually causes a javascript HTTP connection (AJAX stuff \ud83d\ude42 to the HTTP server.<\/li>\n<li>The server takes the parameters supplied by the HTTP request and displays them in a dialog box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fact that it looks like the button causes the pop-up makes me happy because no-one can tell it&#8217;s HTML!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;that aside&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The manure of violent verbal abuse helped produce fruit within Arcel Force. Last night I got a call from the local depot by an apologetic bloke who promised a delivery today&#8230;despite being told the drivers don&#8217;t work on saturday. And so, today I received my new digital camera! Wooohoo! OK I had to put up with the delivery guy trying to justify his previous lies by lying to me even more, but I don&#8217;t care about that &#8211; I just wanted what I&#8217;d paid for. And it&#8217;s a cracker! Rest assured that there will be a nausiating quantity of boring pictures of Humphrey RSN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee is owed several pints for introducing me to trickle\/trickled. It lets you limit bandwidth per process in the most simple way imaginable! So I can still download the original TV series of Whoops Apocalypse and use the Internet at the same time! Joy! While trickled was throttling my bittorrents, I did some work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}